http://forum.newsarama.com/showpost.php?p=5553751 wrote:Somebody: Strange wasn't living in Greenwich Village in that scene, he was just visiting because of "Nightmare's herd", correct? He's still in whatever isolation he popped off to at the end of the New Avengers Annual most of the time?

J[oe] C[asey]: You got it, Somebody. He was compelled to return to try and protect his home turf.

jephyork wrote:Dr. Strange's prominent role in the last few "Avengers/Invaders" solicits is starting to raise some flags in my head...

-Jeph!

And A/I 2 has the New Avengers, including red-and-blue-suit Spidey, hanging at Doctor Strange's.

Is the least-energy solution to assume that NA's depiction of Spider-man wearing black, and showing his face, is the error? Let us pretend that stopped happening a few issues before. There's an entire era here, of stories where the status quo is post-OMD but pre-NA@2.

morwen wrote:Is the least-energy solution to assume that NA's depiction of Spider-man wearing black, and showing his face, is the error? Let us pretend that stopped happening a few issues before. There's an entire era here, of stories where the status quo is post-OMD but pre-NA@2.

Yes. That's what I've held to be the least-worst solution practically from the start...

The only one of those which doesn't show Strange at levels at least comparable to normal is Last Defenders - which is ALSO the only one to explicitly follow NA@ 2, and which ALSO explicitly states Strange ISN'T living at the Sanctum, nor in the company of others.

Paul Bourcier wrote:Did you guys catch the winning explanation for Strange being in ASM 555-FB?

Tom Huxley @ ASM 561 wrote:Despite having quit the Avengers, Dr. Strange invites Spidey & Logan over for breakfast every morning just because he secretly enjoys watching the look on Wong's face as he realizes he's going to have to tidy up after them.